. Illustrations of Indian ornithology : containing fifty figures of new, unfigured and interesting species of birds, chiefly from the south of India . HE B litiL. Panted WBjecre Brother» , OTIS AITRITA. ORD. M^SOMES. GEN. XXXIIIOTIS AURITA. THE BLACK FLORIKIN. Synon.—Otis Aurita—Passarage Bustard—Latham, No. 13, perhaps O. Indica ?—O. fulva—Sykes—0. Bengalensis, apud Lesson—but not of older Authors——Do. Majok Franklin and Colonel Sykes in their Catalogues of the birds ofCentral India and the Decean, having pronounced the common Florikin of Indiato be a distinct species from
. Illustrations of Indian ornithology : containing fifty figures of new, unfigured and interesting species of birds, chiefly from the south of India . HE B litiL. Panted WBjecre Brother» , OTIS AITRITA. ORD. M^SOMES. GEN. XXXIIIOTIS AURITA. THE BLACK FLORIKIN. Synon.—Otis Aurita—Passarage Bustard—Latham, No. 13, perhaps O. Indica ?—O. fulva—Sykes—0. Bengalensis, apud Lesson—but not of older Authors——Do. Majok Franklin and Colonel Sykes in their Catalogues of the birds ofCentral India and the Decean, having pronounced the common Florikin of Indiato be a distinct species from the Black one, I entered at some length, in my Catalogueof the birds of Southern India, into the reasons which led me to conclude thatthe views entertained by these writers were erroneous, and showed that the BlackFlorikin was nothing more than the cock-bird in the summer or breeding that article was written, I have had considerable additional experience, and everything has tended to corroborate that opinion, and I may state, not only in my ownestimation, but in that of almost every sportsman of experience with
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